Ashes Farmhouse

Ashes Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 16th century or earlier and was extended in the 19th century. The building features a combination of timber framing and brick, primarily covered in roughcast render with some areas of weatherboarding, and is topped with handmade red plain tiles. It has a two-bay crosswing that is aligned northeast to southwest, which includes a 19th-century central stack and is part of a hall house that originally extended to the northwest. There is a large 19th-century T-shaped extension to the northwest, creating a central range and a second crosswing, with an internal stack at the junction. The farmhouse faces southwest and has two storeys with a four-window range of mid-19th-century sashes, each with four lights. A half-glazed door is set within a gabled porch. Both crosswings project about 0.25 metre forward of the central range, but the roof of the original right crosswing is approximately 0.60 metre lower than the rest. This right crosswing features an underbuilt jetty and deeply chamfered wallplates with step stops. Although most of the timber frame is hidden by modern finishes, one stud is visible internally on the upper storey of the right wall, and the pegging in the wallplates shows where other studs are located. The roof was rebuilt in a clasped purlin form in the 17th century.